Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THAT WORTHLESS FELLOW PLATONOV- Anton Chekhov; translated by John Gournos-Button...
...Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait, Mrs. Brooks-Aten had entered upon...
Although Scovill has been growing since James Mitchell Lamson Scovill brought his name to the button-making concern in 1811, its greatest expansion has been in recent years. In 1862 Chauncey P. Goss (of the famed Connecticut & Yale Goss family) entered the company; in 1900 became its president. The Gosses now have superseded the Scovills as principal stock-holders and officials. At present the one Scovill on the Board is outnumbered by Edward O. Goss (President and son of the first Goss), John H. Goss, Chauncey P. Goss Jr. and G. A. Goss as fellow-directors; William M. Goss, Edward...